Urban – Circolombia
Circus meets street in the electrifying performance from Circolombia.
Overview
Who needs unicycling dogs and lion tamers when you have fleet-footed humans springboarding one another into five-count backflips?
Circolombia is a troupe of street circus performers from the Colombian city of Cali, and Urban is their gracefully mind-boggling autobiographical show. It paints a portrait of life in a city as dense with both poetics and violence through seamlessly executed dances and acrobatics, the ballsiest stunts quite effectively calling to mind both life and death. Strobe lighting and a throbbing soundtrack presumably do little to make backflips atop tightropes less alarming.
Urban comes to the Sydney Festival following sell-out shows at London's Roundhouse and Broadway in Paris. If you only see one non-inner-city performance this year, this is a pretty weighty contender.
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